Definition of shingle Shingle

/ʃɪˈŋgʌl/ - [shinggul] - shin•gle

We found 23 definitions of shingle from 6 different sources.

What does shingle mean?

Noun Plural: shingles
shingle - building material used as siding or roofing
		shake
		building material material used for constructing buildings
shingle - coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
		crushed rock, gravel rock fragments and pebbles
shingle - a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
Verb shingles, shingling, shingled
shingle - cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
		roof provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof

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shingle (Noun)
A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
shingle (Noun)
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
shingle (Noun)
A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company a production shingle.
shingle (Noun)
A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking.
shingle (Noun)
Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
shingle (Noun)
Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
shingle (Verb)
To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
shingle (Verb)
To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
shingle (Verb)
To lash with a shingle.

shingle (n.)
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
shingle (n.)
A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
shingle (n.)
A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
shingle (v. t.)
To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
shingle (v. t.)
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
shingle (v. t.)
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

shingle
shing′gl, n. wood sawed or split thin, used instead of slates or tiles, for roofing houses: (U.S.) a small sign-board or plate.—v.t. to cover with shingles: to crop the hair very close.—adjs. Shing′led, Shing′le-roofed, having the roof covered with shingles.—ns. Shing′ler; Shing′ling. [Low L. scindula, a wooden tile—L. scindĕre, to split.]
shingle
shing′gl, n. the coarse gravel on the shores of rivers or of the sea.—adj. Shing′ly. [Orig. single—Norw. singel, singling, shingle—singla, freq. of singa, to ring.]